The World Cancer Day (WCD) is observed every year on 4 February across the world to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment.
The theme for the year 2018 is “We can. I can”.
“We can. I can” is special three-year campaign for the World Cancer Day from year 2016 to 2018.
The WCD was instituted by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) in 2008 by formally writing goals of the World Cancer Declaration.
The primary goal of observing the day is to reduce illness and death caused by it by 2020.